Originally posted by eddie1960 if that sensor is true then the next gen in the 645z will likely be 100-120 mp using this technology it's getting silly soon you'll be able to print a billboard with the detail of an 8x10 under a microscope
We've pretty much hit the wall interns of the limits of expanded MP. a 51 MP 645z offers 8265 pixels wide, a Nikon D800 offers 7360, A K-3 = 6000. We're at a point where adding resolution is not really increasing resolution defined by pixel width by all that much. A 645z is more than twice as many pixels, but only 33 percent more horizontal resolution.
To be double the horizontal resolution of a K-3, you'd have to go to 12,000 x 8000, and that would be 96 MP. 4 times the MP to double the horzontal resolution, so 101 MP sounds like a lot...
But I'm sure if it becomes the "standard" and that's what you can get, we'll all buy into it. There's already lot's of evidence that you don't get much going from 16 to 36 MP. You get that teeny little bit extra that sometimes can make a difference. But you don't see it on every image.
Last edited by normhead; 12-04-2014 at 03:02 PM.